The Civil Guard has arrested in Lanzarote a 22-year-old man who was posing as a businessman to sexually abuse women who attended his fake job interviews in Gran Canaria.
The detainee, with a history of crimes of the same nature, contacted the victims through his fake profile on a social network. Through direct messages, he pretended to be a worker at a bodypainting company looking for models for advertising campaigns.
After promising them that they would earn 3,200 euros for three photo sessions for a multinational in the cosmetics sector, he invited his victims to a casting in a hotel in the south of Gran Canaria, where the fake head of marketing would receive them.
Once in the hotel accommodation, the detainee conducted the interviews in one of the rooms, excusing himself for the closure of the hotel's auditorium due to health restrictions.
Although the interview was apparently conducted professionally through the delivery of contracts, the fake executive required an exhibition in a swimsuit to "test" the cosmetic products he allegedly sold.
After one of the meetings, the detainee contacted one of the women again to arrange a new appointment, which allowed the agents to appear at the hotel where he was staying. The alleged perpetrator had left minutes before, but the true identity of this individual could be obtained.
The Civil Guard was able to determine that this person had carried out an elaborate plan, posing as an executive of an advertising company, to contact a certain profile of woman (young and with the intention of entering the world of fashion), whom he made believe that he intended to hire them for a very well-paid job with an international company. During the castings, he took advantage of the fact that they would wear swimsuits to sexually abuse them, in addition to recording them and obtaining photographs of them.
So far, two victims have reported the abuse. The investigation, carried out by the main post of the Civil Guard in Puerto Rico-Mogán (Gran Canaria), is still open and the identification of more victims is not ruled out.
The arrest, carried out by the judicial police of Costa Teguise, had to be carried out with extreme sanitary measures, given that one of the detainee's cohabitants was isolated at home due to Covid-19.
